Death of Claire Maurier: she was the unforgettable owner of the “Amélie Poulain” bar

There are people who don’t need to make a name for themselves. Their face, their voice, their gibberish are a passport to notoriety. And even eternity. Claire Maurier, whose death we learned this Monday, May 4 at the age of 97, ranked first among these great supporting roles. Of course it tells you something, it speaks to us, it moves us. There are people, actresses, even in the background, who have appeared in unforgettable films, with their own je ne sais quoi, a look, an intonation, and who have a lasting impression on the retina and the memory. A face that we do not forget because it appeared constantly on the small screen, even for an instant, from its first appearances in “The Last Five Minutes” in the 1950s to “La Famille Katz” on France 2 in 2013.